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New comment by albumen in "Half-Baked Product"

albumen — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:51:45 +0000

We installed our dishwasher at hip height, with the cupboard for clean dishes directly above. Bending down is a thing of the past.

The two dishwashers idea is neat, but the cupboard capacity is greater than that of a second dishwasher; and we haven’t got the space!

New comment by albumen in "A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown – CNN"

albumen — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:15:01 +0000

And yet millions of people still play the lottery.

I don’t think it’s as simple as uncertainty. Nobody wants to change their lifestyle to avert climate change. People prefer carrots to sticks.

New comment by albumen in "Firewood Splitting Simulator"

albumen — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:11:20 +0000

But then it wouldn’t work on a touchscreen, and it wouldn’t go viral.

New comment by albumen in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

albumen — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:49:40 +0000

Your evidence seems very anecdata. The graphite.io study does make an effort to quantify the false positive and false negative rates of the three detectors, rather than just saying “they work”. They generate 2000 ai articles and ask the detectors to evaluate them, measuring the false negatives (articles falsely IDd as human written); and they use a separate pre-AI dataset (years 2000-2022) to determine false positives.

New comment by albumen in "U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators"

albumen — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:11:38 +0000

What you’re seeing is the result of the USA voting in a party and president that made it clear beforehand that they were going to install puppet civil servants to do their will. Most other developed countries have avoided this scenario.

New comment by albumen in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

albumen — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:55:38 +0000

Those sources don’t claim Anthropic is crossing its red lines (AI-controlled weapons and mass domestic surveillance of American citizens).

New comment by albumen in "Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight"

albumen — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:04:18 +0000

Other countries with good systems also have such people. America’s crime rate is far lower than the 1990s; the impression that you live in a crime-infested world is likely increased media coverage.

I think the real reason the US has poor public transit is that its transport landscape has been shaped by years of planning and funding decisions that have put the car first, and cities rebuilt accordingly. America’s enormity also makes nationwide PT more difficult (but not impossible).

Then add the meritocratic attitude that if you can’t afford a car it’s somehow your fault, and you end up with little political and societal interest in a good public transit system.

*https://ourworldindata.org/us-crime-rates

New comment by albumen in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

albumen — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:13:17 +0000

But the above criteria are mostly subjective, so objectivity largely doesn’t apply.

New comment by albumen in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

albumen — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:16:11 +0000

No, the plasma forms a teardrop shape around small craft like Orion, completely cutting off radio comms. Larger craft like starship or the shuttle which have a roughly cylindrical shape (vs Orion’s circular cross section) aren’t fully enclosed by the plasma. The shuttle had a transmitter attached to its tail for later flights, which could send back telemetry during re-entry.

New comment by albumen in "The best tools for sending an email if you go silent"

albumen — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:57:22 +0000

This feels like an AI-generated list of products with no actual hands-on time to let me get a feel if any of the services actually work vs their feature list. Revising the language/structure to not reek of AI would make me think more care had gone into it, and thus be more trustworthy.

New comment by albumen in "Understanding young news audiences at a time of rapid change"

albumen — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:29:32 +0000

I agree that attenborough’s documentaries are carefully composed, presumably to be suitable for a British family audience of the 1970s. You seem to uncharitably ascribe intentional malice to this approach rather than it being a product of its time and cultural values. For what it’s worth, I think his documentaries have done much more good (in raising awareness of the natural world and the need to conserve it) rather than harm.

But what I don’t understand is that you quote the OP article re climate change and racism, but then go off on a tangent re Attenborough? Sounds like you have an axe to grind.

New comment by albumen in "Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025)"

albumen — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:05:17 +0000

Blackout curtains.

New comment by albumen in "Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester"

albumen — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:35:18 +0000

More informed by that comment, really? Did you read this[0]? As someone disinterested in the topic, the controversy seems very overblown and a knee jerk response. His position seems to have been pretty consistent over time.

[0]: https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-tr...

Altman admits OpenAI can't control Pentagon's use of AI

albumen — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:44:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/04/sam-altman-openai-pentagon

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47255601

Points: 11

# Comments: 0

New comment by albumen in "Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs"

albumen — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:02:44 +0000

Your framing is interesting. You may feel that you can’t change who you are in real life, but people have a choice on how they behave online (or choose not to engage at all). So you could choose to be nice (or at least not a jerk); I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t get people writing to your employer complaining. I’d argue that if you know you’re sometimes a jerk, it’d be less stressful for you and others if you didn’t bring that energy online.

New comment by albumen in "How the V&A acquired YouTube's first ever upload for its collection"

albumen — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:02:16 +0000

The V&A has not just acquired the video, but reconstructed a version of the page, as it would have looked in 2006...The V&A said the video is now considered “a foundational moment in the rise of user-generated content”.

It said the reconstructed page marks an early example of User Interface design conventions, such as badges, rating buttons, sharing and recommendation features – features which continue to shape the internet today.

Previous digital acquisitions include apps such as WeChat, Flappy Bird, EUKI, and the design for the mosquito emoji.

How the V&A acquired YouTube's first ever upload for its collection

albumen — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:02:16 +0000

Article URL: https://museumsandheritage.com/advisor/posts/how-the-va-acquired-youtubes-first-ever-upload-for-its-collection/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47080184

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by albumen in "Show HN: Formally verified FPGA watchdog for AM broadcast in unmanned tunnels"

albumen — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 18:46:58 +0000

Fascinating. Any references? A cursory web search reveals nothing.

New comment by albumen in "14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight"

albumen — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:45:47 +0000

You could look at this in at least two different ways. 1) journalism, and how it’s a better story if the kid is a self-contained genius; or 2) having youth be thankful for mentoring, and to understand little in life is achieved without others’ assistance.

I don’t consider that the parent comment is seeking to “steal the spotlight”; just that it’d be a more realistic appraisal of how success is achieved.

New comment by albumen in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

albumen — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:15:11 +0000

So, your credit card is in practice a debit card?